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Gianni Ghizzoni, President, Eumabois shares with FDM Asia about Eumabois’ promotional activities and how it is actively shaping the industry through standardisation. By Goh Tz’en Long.
StandardsOf Excellence Eumabois seems to be actively involved with a lot of exhibitions. Can you tell us more about Eumabois’ activities? Eumabois takes care of various subjects beside exhibitions. One of the main areas is technical subjects. In Europe, we are involved, together with the Presidency and the Secretariat of TC 142 in Brussels, in the standardisation of woodworking machinery. This is a very important job and of course it is our duty to do it, to set the standard for woodworking machinery. Also on the technical side, we have issued, last year, a new terminology for woodworking machinery. We have translated it in many different languages including Chinese and Russian. Also, we have tried to collect statistical information on production, because on export it is rather easy, for they are available all over the world, but production statistics is different. So we are trying to involve all the associations in Europe and also extra European associations. Production statistics is very important in order to have the real picture of the
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production of woodworking machinery in the world so everybody knows what is the position for us. The technical nomenclature is for everybody in woodworking machinery, not only the Europeans, because as I said they are translated into Chinese, Russian, Arabic and many other languages. It gives a common way of calling the machines, and also in catalogues in all the exhibitions, they have common terminology. It is terminology Eumabois issued that has been studied specifically by experts in our sector.
Eumabois has endorsed certain exhibitions. Can you tell us the basis for deciding on which shows to endorse? We try to endorse exhibitions according to the needs of our industry and we look at the organiser and what kind of promotions they do. We look at the cost of the exhibition space and the services also. And we try to promote these exhibitions in order to create important events, in order to give guidelines to our members,